Transhumanism - Engineering the Human Condition : History, Philosophy and Current Status /

This book is designed to offer a comprehensive high-level introduction to transhumanism, an international political and cultural movement that aims to produce a "paradigm shift" in our ethical and political understanding of human evolution. Transhumanist thinkers want the human species to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Manzocco, Roberto (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:	1st ed. 2019.
Series:	Popular Science.
Subjects:	Technology. Philosophy. History. Anthropology. Knowledge, Theory of. Artificial intelligence. Popular Science in Technology. Philosophy of Technology. History of Science. Epistemology. Artificial Intelligence.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Technological Heaven
Chapter 1. Stairways to the Sky
Chapter 2. Across the transhumanist galaxy
Chapter 3. A new Tower of Babel
Chapter 4. Living forever
Chapter 5. Plan B
Chapter 6. Nanometric Cornucopia
Chapter 7. The New Flesh rising
Chapter 8. Trans-humans in the geopolitical arena
Chapter 9. Colonizing the mind
Chapter 10. Synthetic bodies, artificial minds
Chapter 11. Toward a radical life expansion
Chapter 12. Rapture of the Nerd
Chapter 13. The light of the very far future
Chapter 14. Transhumanism and science: a reality check
Conclusion. Stealing God's Thunder.